Monthly Archives: October 2013

Bob wrote: When You’re the last guy in California to still call Ali, Cassius Clay; YOU may be a Racist. Sorry to be the one to tell you.Bernie Palmatier Right on, Bob, riiiiighhhttt onnnnnn….

Bob Royden & Bernie Palmatier, your despicable Democrat talking points are reprehensible. You picked the wrong person to call a “Racist.” Not only do I have a sister-in-law and brother-in-law that are Black and Hispanic and nieces, but I was the first City Councilman to have a Black Chief of Staff. Additionally, I raised enough money to bring Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to address the city council. Clarence Pendleton, Chairman of the Civil Rights Commission credited me for his seeing the light and becoming a Republican. You Bob and Bernie, however, “voluntarily” joined the Democrat Party which no one disputes has a record of being the most racist organization in U.S. history, not even including its sub-committee, the Ku Klux Klan and its own despicable record of lynching Blacks. The Democrat Party may have consigned its own history down the Orwellian memory hole, and you two can run, you can hide, but you cannot escape from your history. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole) People interested can find documentation in Romancing The Voters, Chapter 14. http://www.smashwords.com/book/view/302807

How many times has the government shut down in the past? Since 1977, there have been 17 shutdowns, according to the Congressional Research Service. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/29/questions-and-answers-about-the-sh…utdown/2888419/Dean: Non-budgetary is an interesting parsing of words.
During the Ford and Carter administrations, there were 6 partial government shutdowns that affected only the departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare. These partial shutdowns lasted from 8 to 18 days and the primary issue of dispute was federal funding for abortion.

During the Reagan administration, there were 8 full government shutdowns that lasted only 1 to 3 days apiece, primarily over the issue of the United States budget deficit. There was a similar 4-day shutdown during the first Bush administration.
During the Clinton administration, after conservatives made massive congressional gains in the 1994 Republican Revolution, there were two full government shutdowns lasting 5 and 21 days apiece, the second of which was by far the longest of its kind to that date. The primary issue was again the United States budget deficit.
The United States federal government shutdown of 2013 is ongoing, having begun on 1 October 2013. The primary issue of dispute between the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democrat-controlled Senate (the latter supported by President Obama) is the Republicans’ desire to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

“This Republican shutdown did not have to happen … They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans. In other words, they demanded ransom just for doing their job.” -President Obama addresses the partial government shutdown in the Rose Garden. Watch his full remarks: http://tinyurl.com/n2qmntr